Santa Fé de Goiás

Santa Fé is located almost directly west of Brasília and northwest of Goiânia. The nearest town, Jussara, lies 34 km to the southeast.

• Distance to regional center (Goiás Velho): 132 km.
• Highway connections: GO-060 / Trindade / GO-326 / Anicuns / Sanclerlândia / Novo Brasil / Jussara / BR-070 / Nova Trindade / GO-173.

Neighboring municipalities: Jussara, Britânia, Itapirapuã

• Mayor: Ademar Marques de Carvalho (January 2005)
• City council: 09
• Eligible voters: 3,885 (December 2007)

In 1957, Santa Fé de Goiás became a district belonging to Goiás. In 1958, it was dismembered to become a district in the municipality of Jussara. In 1988, it got its municipal autonomy.

• Population density: 3.96 inhabitants/km² (2007)
• Urban population: 3,514 (2007)
• Rural population: 1,080 (2007)
• Population growth: a gain of about 900 people since 1991

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.

• Industrial units: 6 (2007)
• Commercial units: 57 (2007)
• Meat-packing plant: Frigorífico Arantes Ltda
• Cattle herd: 135,000 head
• Main crops: cotton, rice, sugarcane, bananas, sesame seeds, corn, and soybeans.
• Motor vehicles: 231 automobiles, 34 trucks, and 37 pickup trucks (2007)

• Schools: 5
• Classrooms: 30
• Teachers: 60
• Students: 1,314
• Higher education: none
• Adult literacy rate: 83.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

• Hospitals: 0
• Hospital beds: 0
• Ambulatory clinics: 2
• Doctors, nurses, dentists: 3, 1, 1 (2002)
• Infant mortality rate: 26.34 per 1,000 live births (2000) (national average was 33.0 per 1,000 live births)
• MHDI: 0.713
• State ranking: 190 (out of 242 municipalities)
• National ranking: 2,744 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

• List of municipalities in Goiás
• Microregions of Goiás